Era Pajajaran
In the year 1488, the area now known as the Bandung was the capital of the Kingdom of Padjadjaran. But from ancient archeological discoveries, we know that the city was home to Australopithecus, Java Man. These people live in the suburbs north of the river Cikapundung Bandung, and on the shore of Lake of the famous Bandung. Fire Stone artifacts can still be found on the Dago area and the Geological Museum of the image and the remaining fragments of the skull and artifacts.
Sundanese community are farmers who depend on soil fertility in Bandung. They develop a living oral tradition in which the show includes puppet show, and many other types of music performances. "There's a city called Bandung, comprising 25 to 30 houses," wrote Juliaen de Silva in the year 1614.
Dutch Colonial Era
Achievement of the European adventure to try their luck in the fertile lands and prosperous in Bandung, they end up directing in 1786 when it built the road connecting Jakarta, Bogor, Cianjur and Bandung. This current increase in the year 1809 when Louis Napoleon, the ruler of the Netherlands, ordered Governor General HW Daendels, to improve defense against the British in Java. His vision was a chain unit of defense and a way to supply goods between Batavia and Cirebon. But this beach area there are many swamps, and easier to build roads to the south, past the plateau Priangan.
The Groote Postweg (Greatest Post Line) built 11 miles to the north to the heart of the city of Bandung. As usual with kecekatannya, Daendels ordered that the capital was relocated to the street. Regent Wiranatakusumah II chose a place in the south of the road from the west side of the river Cikapundung, near a pair of sacred wells, wells Bandung, which according to rumors protected by the goddess Nyi Kentring Manik. In this area he built dalemnya (palace) and the square (downtown). Following the traditional orientation, the Great Mosque in place on the south side, and traditional markets on the east side. House and Pendopo (meeting place) is located in the southern part of the sacred mountain overlooking Tangkuban Perahu. It was then that Flower City born.
Around the mid-19 th century, the South American cinchona (quinine), Assam tea, and coffee was introduced to the highlands. At the end of the century Priangan listed as the most profitable agricultural areas as profinsi. In the year 1880 the railway connecting Jakarta and Bandung was completed, and the promising road for 2 1 / 2 hours from the hustle capital Jakarta to Bandung.
With lifestyle changes in Bandung, hotels, cafes, shops appear to serve the farmers who either came from the highlands or from the capital to cruise the area in Bandung. Concordia community is formed and with a large space tarinya is a magnet that draws people to spend the weekend in the city. Hotel Savoy Homann Preanger and the hotels is the choice. Braga is along the sidewalks eksklusive shops of Europe.
With the railroad, light industry developed. Once harvested raw plant has been able to directly sent to Jakarta for shipment by sea to Europe, now the main process can be done efficiently in Bandung. Chinese people who have never lived in Bandung gradually came to help run some facilities and machinery and services for new industries. Chinatown emerged in this period.
In the early days of this century, Pax Neerlandica in proclaiming, producing a change from military to civilian rule. With this came the policy of decentralization to lighten the administrative burden from central government. And so Bandung became the municipality in 1906.
This change provides a big impact on the city. The town hall was built at the north end of Braga to accommodate the new government, separate from the original system of society. This is then followed by the development of a much larger when the military headquarters was moved from Batavia to Bandung around 1920. The place chosen was in the eastern part of City Hall, and in which there is a residence for the Commander of the war, offices, barracks, and the armory.
In the early 20th century the need to have a professional who has a special ability to move a high-school establishment techniques sponsored by the citizens of the city of Bandung. At the same time plans to move the capital of the Dutch East Indies from Batavia to Bandung was mature, the city is in extending to the north. Capital district was placed in the northeast, a region that had been the fields, and a highway was planned to be made along the 2.5 kilometers facing Tangkuban Boat with Gedung Sate at the south end, and a colossal monument to the other side. On both sides of this magnificent building will have the settlement for the offices of the colonial permerintahan.
Along the banks of the river landscape amongst Cikapundung there Hoogeschool Technical College, the reformatory and the board. The old campus buildings and landscape reflect the genius of the architect Henri Pont Maclain. In the southwestern part is provided for hospitals and the Pasteur Institute in environments which quinine old factories. This development very carefully planned starting from the architecture and detailed treatment. Previous years was not long before the outbreak of World War 2 was a golden year for Bandung and remembered as the Bandung Tempoe Doeloe.
Milestone-Independence Era
After Indonesian independence, became capital of Bandung in West Java province. Bandung conference was the scene of Bandung on 18 April to 24 April 1955 with the purpose to promote economic and cultural cooperation between African and Asian countries, and to combat threat of colonialism and neocolonialism by the United States, the Soviet Union or countries other imperialist.
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